If you want to be a hundred officials in the court, you should take turbidity and promote the Qing as the first priority.

——Quoted in "Zhijiang New Language, Turbidity and Yang Qing Zhengzi" and other articles

■Interpretation

A large number of facts have proved that the success of a locality's work depends on the style of cadres, and the failure also lies in the style of cadres; The cause of a place is prosperous in the style of cadres, and the decline is also in the style of cadres. Comrade Deng Xiaoping once looked back on the ups and downs of our party and sighed with emotion: "Why have we been able to tide over the very difficult situation in the past? The fundamental problem is that our cadres and party members suffer together with the masses of the people. "Kuang Zheng dispelled evil, stirred up turbidity and promoted purity, this is the virtue of politics in traditional culture, and it is also the meaning of creating a good political ecology. At the 16th collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Comrade Xi Jinping emphasized: "To strengthen party building, we must create a good political environment, that is, we must have a good political ecology. "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the new central leadership collective has been agitated and clean, anti-corruption and honest, on the one hand, it has adopted a high-pressure posture and an iron fist to fight corruption, and has rigidly enforced discipline against the "four winds" problem, and the work of "turbidity" has continued; On the other hand, the promulgation of the eight regulations and the development of mass line education and practice activities have made the work of "promoting cleansing" continue to deepen. Building a clean politics and realizing a clean cadre, a clean government, and a clean politics have become the basic political ethics and value pursuit of Comrade Xi Jinping's governance of the country.

■Original text

The so-called ministers are the kings of the way, and they cannot be stopped. My nephew should repeat his words three times, and if he does not ridicule the future generations, he will decay and have glory. …… If you want to be a hundred officials in the court, you should take turbidity and promote the Qing as the first righteousness, and its origin lies in maintaining integrity.

——(On the occasion of the Ming and Qing Dynasties) Gu Yanwu's "Book with Gongsu's Nephew"

■Definition

Gu Yanwu, an outstanding thinker during the Ming and Qing dynasties. This article is a letter written by Gu Yanwu to his nephew Xu Yuanwen. Xu Yuanwen, whose name is Gongsu, was the champion in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi (1659), and was a scholar of Wenhuadian University and a bachelor of Hanlin Academy.

In the letter, Gu Yanwu first quoted the words of Confucius in the Analects: "The so-called ministers are the kings of Taoism, and they cannot be stopped." warned Xu Yuanwen to "do things with the Tao", and if the ruler did not listen to the advice, he would resign and leave. He used what he saw and heard along the way and the evil behavior of local officials who disregarded people's lives as examples, and proposed: "If you want to be honest with the court, you should take turbidity and promote the Qing as the first righteousness, and its origin lies in cultivating integrity." "It is believed that in order to correct the court, it must first be a hundred officials, and the first purpose should be to stir up turbidity and promote purity, and its root lies in cultivating and maintaining the virtue of integrity." turbidity and purity", uttering "Corpse": "Yang Qing turbidity, sweeping away filth, righteousness." ”

Gu Yanwu proposed that "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband", and advocated that "the gentleman is the learner, the way is clear, and the world is saved". He paid attention to the livelihood of the society and the people, and spoke hard to Shiqing's nephew and persuaded him carefully. He encouraged Xu Yuanwen like this: "If you have the heart of the country, you can climb the mountain and face the water; There is a strategy to help the world and the people, and then archaeology can be discussed today. ”